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The U.S. maternal mortality rate has significantly increased from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1987 to 16.7 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2016, and the data indicate that more than half of these deaths are preventable. Unnecessary cesarean sections, limited receipt of proper prenatal and postnatal care, and racial or ethnic ...
For example, the authors note that the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (which defines a pregnancy-related death as a death while pregnant or within one year of the end of pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy) has estimated a much lower maternal mortality rate of 12.1 per 100,000 births in 2018 and 12.3 in 2019.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Surgeon General have recently released an Action Plan and a Call to Action, respectively, focused on improving maternal health. These action plans address a great need, as the United States has among the worst maternal mortality rates (MMR) in the developed world—largely a result ...
The United States maternal mortality crisis continues to worsen. As the chart below demonstrates, the U.S. maternal mortality rate (MMR) in 2021 was 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births at 42 days post-pregnancy, compared to 17.4 in 2018, an increase of 89 percent. Moreover, when disaggregated by race, the MMR for non-Hispanic Black women was 69 ...
Between 2002 and 2021, the infant mortality rate declined 22 percent. But in 2022, the NCHS reports that the infant mortality rate rose to 5.60 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, an increase of 3 percent over the 2021 rate of 5.44 infant deaths. This represents the first statistically significant year-over-year increase since 2001–2002.
Eakinomics: Some Depressing Stats to Start Your Week Today’s effort to fulfill my obligation to find the dark cloud for every silver lining is to draw your attention to the recent paper on maternal mortality by AAF’s Tara O’Neill Hayes. When I read it, I was genuinely shocked that “The U.S. maternal mortality rate has significantly increased from 7.2 […]
The chart below compares the World Bank’s estimate of six developed maternal mortality ratios (deaths while pregnant or within 42 days of pregnancy termination per 100,000 live births) to the number of midwives available per 1,000 live births. As the chart demonstrates, the United States has the highest maternal mortality ratio among ...
Poor physical and mental maternal health are both associated with adverse effects on birth outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age., In a large-scale study, paid leave decreased the rate of low birth weight infants by 3.2 percent and decreased the likelihood of pre-term births by 6.6 percent.
In the 2020 study, researchers set out to identify why there continued to be a drastic difference between the mortality rates of Black and White infants. Using the difference in mortality as a starting block, researchers constructed a model to test for “Black-White newborn mortality risk [differences] depending on physician race.”.
A frequently highlighted issue in public health discourse is the disparity in maternal mortality rates in the United States compared to other developed countries. According to data obtained from Humanprogress.org , the United States also has among the highest rates of maternal morbidity among developed countries, defined as complications ...